1) A calendar program
2) A planned calculation
(a) For such-and-such a minimum of workers at such-and-such a rate
— so many billions.
(b) Debts of such-and-such an amount
(c) We shall cover [them] then, in such-and-such an order.
But beyond that, the entire tempo of our monetary reform must be
fundamentally changed.
*Periculum in mora.
~Com. nr. Lenin.

¹ Lenin requested the return of a letter from I. S. Unshlikht concerning the payment of salaries to VChK employees at new rates.

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# NOTE TO S. S. PILYAVSKY¹

22/XI [1921]

Comrade Pilyavsky!

Please send me a brief written communication on how many debts of the Entente have been calculated by your commission² in the following categories: a) completely proven, thoroughly substantiated;
b) less thoroughly [substantiated];
c) less convincingly substantiated.
and so forth.

Prem. SNK V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

¹ S. S. Pilyavsky — chairman of the commission for determining war losses.
² On November 1, 1921, the SNK appointed a commission to work out practical questions connected with negotiations on debts. On November 22 of that year, the question of debts was again discussed at an SNK session, after which the commission headed by S. S. Pilyavsky was proposed to complete its work by December.

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# NOTE TO G. YA. SOKOLNIKOV*

Comrade Sokolnikov.

Copy: to comrade Kamenev

December 24, 1921

I have just now read your brochure "State Capitalism and the New Financial Policy." I consider the speediest

* danger in delay. Ed.
** Printed from a typewritten copy. Ed.